hook up with a girl. public utilities such as parks and libraries are great places to meet attractive and nice chicks. use your manly charms on one such vixen and seduce them. after that, ez pz.

but failing that, you should try begging for money and buying things from mcdonald's dollar menu.

MrWinkles

United States200 Posts

March 16 2009 05:07 GMT

#42

There was an episode on This American Life about two people who chose to live as homeless people for a year so as to give them more time to work on their poetry. They outlined some good places to go and get food -- such as church soup kitchens, etc. It would be worth listening to, I suppose, you should be able to find it online.

Overall, don't give up looking for work. You can even perhaps do cyber-jobs if needed from public library computers. Also, you can get some good money and living spaces from extended-time medical studies, although that might do you more harm than good in the long term.

I feel sorry for you

If you're anywhere near boston perhaps you can stay one night at my dorm, although that doesn't really help either.

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

March 16 2009 05:14 GMT

#43

Should have made a school friend?

ambit!ous1

United States3662 Posts

March 16 2009 05:19 GMT

#44

hi wrong thread

XoXiDe

United States620 Posts

March 16 2009 05:22 GMT

#45

take summer classes and stay on campus? i know some schools don't offer financial aid for summer though unless you request it.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

March 16 2009 05:23 GMT

#46

On March 16 2009 12:05 Hot_Bid wrote:
here's a survival guide to homelessness
http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/

its really pretty amazing

ty i just may end up needing this lol
cuz sometimes i feel dangerously close to completely giving up(not in a bad way, if that's possible)

anch

United States5457 Posts

March 16 2009 05:26 GMT

#47

VA?
go work in poultry farm/chicken slaughter house, then tell us stories about kicking animals before slaughtering them.

SevGaming

United States93 Posts

March 16 2009 05:30 GMT

#48

I don't see what the issue is... I live in VA as well, in a fairly high-dollar area, and I rent a 4 bedroom house for $450/month. I mean, a 2,000 sq ft house only costs about $160,000 here on a half acre of land. Working even 10 hours a week at McDonald's would be able to pay for an apartment with one roommate; two at most.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

March 16 2009 05:31 GMT

#49

Actually I just remembered a thread that was made by someone on TL who said he had a little bit of cash, but no place to live or anyone to stay with. He ended up playing poker and staying with some friends for a while. Don't remember the thread or keywords in the thread to search for it but if you find it or someone knows what I'm talking about you might want to PM him for ideas. I think he even came back to TL a couple years later and made a thread about building a new computer and someone linked his old thread in there.

God I've wasted so much time reading TL.net. Honestly I know so much useless things about some members on here. Could be worse thou could have been made into a mod.

baubo

China3370 Posts

March 16 2009 05:32 GMT

#50

When I read the thread title, I was reminded of a piece I read a while back. Pretty nice stuff.

http://www1.broward.edu/~nplakcy/docs/dumpster_diving.htm

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

March 16 2009 05:37 GMT

#51

On March 16 2009 12:05 Hot_Bid wrote:
here's a survival guide to homelessness
http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/

its really pretty amazing

whoa, that guy knows his shit. Book marked and copied into text document for future reference!

toopham

United States551 Posts

March 16 2009 05:45 GMT

#52

On March 16 2009 14:30 SevGaming wrote:
I don't see what the issue is... I live in VA as well, in a fairly high-dollar area, and I rent a 4 bedroom house for $450/month. I mean, a 2,000 sq ft house only costs about $160,000 here on a half acre of land. Working even 10 hours a week at McDonald's would be able to pay for an apartment with one roommate; two at most.

HOly shit!!
I always knew other states were cheaper (I live in California) BUT DAMN
$450 for a 4 bedroom house?

Right now I live in a 3 bedroom condo, I'm sharing my room with another guy and I'm paying $440/month

SevGaming

United States93 Posts

March 16 2009 05:47 GMT

#53

Yeah. I had a job offer to work at Blizzard's office in Irvine, and I turned it down due to the insanely high cost of living. Jobs paid the same, but everything seemed to cost about twice as much. I feel bad for anyone living in Cali.

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

March 16 2009 06:00 GMT

#54

Yeah, that same house would probably cost like 4x as much here in Silicon Valley.. even with the foreclosures lol!

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

March 16 2009 06:03 GMT

#55

Don't feel bad for us living in California. It's awesome here. Rent sucks, but it's a small price to pay.

29 fps

United States5724 Posts

March 16 2009 06:10 GMT

#56

hopefully you have some friends, or some way to get loans, and hope to pay them back later.

or live in a car

Quesadilla

United States1814 Posts

March 16 2009 06:19 GMT

#57

On March 16 2009 14:45 toopham wrote:

Show nested quote +

Hahaha that's what I though. Most apartments here are $600/mo, don't complain too much about other states. LOL @ Irvine, $2500/mo for single bedroom apartment.

omfghi2u2

United States831 Posts

March 16 2009 06:23 GMT

#58

Did the OP even tell us where he lives yet?

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

March 16 2009 06:24 GMT

#59

Cali has some ridiculous living requirements that I feel are going to HAVE to come down with the way the economy and the housing market is going.

Currently costs me 550 for a 2 bedroom apartment and I live on my own.